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- Media-savvy Taliban hurting Afghan gov't - Edmonton Sun
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a ...
- Catskills Getaways for the Mind, Body & Spirit (ABC News)
Religious retreats in NY's Catskills allow visitors to find inner peace.
- Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium on View at Kemper ... - Art Daily
Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium on View at Kemper ...Art Daily - 5 hours ago... much wine was to be served, what poetry recited, and what music performed. As conveyed in Plato’s Symposium, a philosophical text on the nature of love, ...
- FILM ROUNDUP: Timeless message that rings true across cultural divides - Tribune
FILM ROUNDUP: Timeless message that rings true across cultural dividesTribune, UK - 9 hours agoBadlands presents it protagonists’ bloody escapades in terms of lyrical, often transcendent cinematic poetry. Tak Fujimoto’s burnished cinematography is ...
- Tavis Smiley Announces America I Am Exhibition will Debut at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center (Art Daily)
Phillis Wheatley writing table, ca.1760. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was the first book of poetry by a Black American, published in London in 1773. Photo: Massachusetts Historical Society.
- Paul Auster on ‘Man in the Dark’ and Seceding From the Union - Nymag.com
In Brooklyn author Paul Auster’s new novel, Man in the Dark (out this week), a book critic named Brill battles insomnia, grief over the recent death of his wife, and a deep dissatisfaction with the state of America, all by telling himself a bedtime ...
- Comics Panel: July 18, 2008 - A.V. Club
Comics Panel: July 18, 2008A.V. Club - 18 minutes agoJames Kochalka has one of the most kid-friendly styles (and sensibilities) of any cartoonist working today, and yet his children's book Johnny Boo—about a ...
- Culture Crit - American Reporter
LOS ANGELES -- Some people (especially those of us who've been around longer than we'd like to admit) continually lament what we perceive to be the decline in American poetry. We don't mean the diminished numbers of readers of poetry in this century ...
- Madison hosts National Poetry Slam (Wisconsin State Journal)
Eighteen has been good to Danez Smith. It's the age that he's come into his own, he says. And the age he was named Madison's Grand Slam Poetry Champion. It gets even better: Later this week, Smith (still 18), will perform his poetry in the national spotlight -- right on a Madison stage. Smith's local title win in May gave him a berth on the city's five-poet team, which will compete in the ...
- BR Area for Aug 1-Aug 7, 2008 - 2TheAdvocate
BR Area for Aug 1-Aug 7, 20082TheAdvocate, LA - 1 hour agoThe store will remain open late (past midnight) to sell the latest book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn. Kalila Katherine Smith, author ...
- The BBC's Olympics coverage: gold, silver, bronze or something else? - Guardian Blogs
Team GB is awash with medals at the Olympics . But what would you award Team BBC, if I may call it that, and its round-the-clock coverage of the games from Beijing? The corporation's coverage of any major overseas event these days is invariably ...
- 10 things to do this week (The News Journal)
"Iron Man" on DVD, poetry in Middletown and Biden vs. Palin on TV
- Journal set to publish bin Laden's poetry - ABC Online
Journal set to publish bin Laden's poetryABC Online, Australia - 6 hours ago"There was a variety of occasions he delivered this poetry ... so they were sometimes given to large audiences when he was recruiting for jihad in ...
- Religion Calendar: 09/20/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Religion Calendar is published weekly by the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Information may be mailed to Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; fax to 946-8632; e-mail gmurray@record-eagle.com. Items should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
- The Courier News Index (The Courier)
THE SCOTTISH Government’s flagship plan to give free school meals to all pupils in the first three years of primary education was under fire last night amid fears that councils will not be able to afford it.
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